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In article <172@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) writes:
>  Which brings up two questions:
>
>    1) Do you need one? If not, what are the advantages of having one
>       (for a limited circulation publication)?

Booksellers use ISBN's and ISSN's (International Standard Serial Number)
to order books and serials.  Librarians find these useful, too.
The idea is to have these numbers uniquely identify a publication down to
the edition level (1st. ed, 2nd. ed, etc.), so a bookstore proprietor, librarian
or whatever in any part of the world can order an ISBN'ed item unambiguously.

>
>    2) How would you go about obtaining one?  If this involves the
>       Library of Congress, does anyone have their address handy?

The information I have is rather old [1979 :), but this program is pretty
stable].  For ISBN info write to:

	International Standard book Numbering Agency
	1180 Avenue of the Americas
	New York NY 10036

For ISSN information write to:

	National Serials Data Program
	Library of Congress
	Washington DC 20540

Hope you find this useful.
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